On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
>On Thu, 13 Jun 2002 at 12:04pm, Jonathan Murray wrote
>
>> 1) Can amanda back up and restore xfs file systems on IRIX box? I
>> have one IRIX box that uses efs that appears to back up fine
>> (restores never work, but that's another problem) and one that uses
>> xfs that I can't get to work with either dump or tar. Both tar and
>> dump fail on the system using xfs filesystem with disk offline errors
>> even though amcheck appears happy.
>
>To use dump on an xfs filesystem, the IRIX box must have xfsdump
>installed, and amanda must have found it at ./configure time. tar
>should work, however. Time to go through the debug logs for the tar
>backups.
I can verify that GNUtar works wonderfully for backing up what is
approaching fifty IRIX clients, including several very large Origins.
One thing to be careful of is that you have installed GNUtar 1.13.25 on
your IRIX systems in somewhere like /usr/local. The GNUtar which comes
with the IRIX freeware distribution is v1.13 and is not suitable for use
with amanda. Once you've got 1.13.25 compiled and installed make sure
that you specify the path to it at configure time with the --with-gnutar
option. By default configure will likely either find the outdated
/usr/freeware binary or worse yet the IRIX tar in /sbin, which most
definitely won't work with amanda.
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Brandon D. Valentine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Computer Geek, Center for Structural Biology
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